Lucky he didn’t call the blue dog Democrats pooty-heads

How I missed this controversy I have no idea. I beg forgiveness for not jumping on it.

Here is Politico’s take on it. (Note in this piece the misuse of it’s. We have lost the its battle, my friends.)

But that article doesn’t explain what it means!

Here is one that quotes Press Secretary Robert Gibbs trying to define wee-weed up.

“August of 2008, everybody was nervous about whether the entire presidential campaign was slipping out from the hands of the president,” Gibbs said, turning the page to this August, in which all the president’s critics are declaring his health-care initiatives in peril. “This is sort of an August pundit pattern of people getting overly nervous about something that has a long way to go…

“Bedwetting would probably be the more consumer-friendly term for it,” the press secretary said.

What’s interesting is that nobody else seems ever to have heard this expression. Is it a pure Obama-ism? Well, it’s no “death panel”, but it’ll have to do for this week.